Benjamin Disraeli as a barber called "Ben Jingo" is cutting the face of John Bull while shaving him. Engraving (?) by W. Dewane, 188-.

  • Dewane, William.
Date:
1880
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568560i
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Victorian album of political satires.
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Jingo: "A nickname for those who supported and lauded the policy of Lord Beaconsfield in sending a British fleet into Turkish waters to resist the advance of Russia in 1878"--Oxford English dictionary. Disraeli's name as a peer, earl of Beaconsfield, was bestowed in August 1876

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1880

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1 print (album page 3) : engraving? ; image 35.8 x 27.1 cm

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The last scrape. Ben Jingo kept a Tory shop and was a barber bold / And when John Bull got shaved by him, paid dear in blood and gold ; W. Dewane. The people new series no. 3

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Wellcome Collection 568560i

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